Auction on Thursday to benefit UIS art gallery

Wednesday

Artist ANN E. COULTER of Peoria has an art piece in the silent auction benefit at the University of Illinois Springfield that at least met its minimum bid (as of Monday).

Coulter’s “AWAY # 4” pastel drawing on vintage postcard had a minimum bid of $50. The piece’s pastel drawing offers deep blues in a landscape setting on a vintage postcard that has writings such as “c/o The Brickyard at New Bedford” and a 1-cent Benjamin Franklin postage stamp.

Broadly described as a landscape artist on Facebook, Coulter’s pastel drawings are from photographs she takes of “weedy little patches of nothing and nowhere” in central Illinois.

Coulter’s artwork is among dozens of original works of art donated for the UIS VISUAL ARTS GALLERY 2013 SILENT AUCTION BENEFIT.

Final bidding and a closing reception will be from 5:30 to 7 p.m. today at the gallery, Room 201 of the Health and Sciences Building at UIS. The UIS Music Camerata will perform from 5 to 7 p.m. during the closing reception. Artwork will be available to the highest bidder (regular gallery hours are from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. today).

The Friends of the UIS Visual Arts Gallery group is sponsoring the auction benefit, with proceeds helping future gallery programming.

You can bid by providing a bid amount, name and contact (phone or email) on bid sheets accompanying the works. People outbidding those before them are asked to increase bids in increments of no less than $5.

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